UNITAID aims to promote sustainable and affordable access to medicines, diagnostics, and preventative items for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria through market-based approaches. It works through partnerships and focuses on being a market catalyst, creator, or fixer depending on the needs. For HIV diagnostics, UNITAID has conducted landscape analyses to inform its priorities. It is calling for projects to increase diagnostic access and will evaluate proposals based on their potential market and public health impacts, innovation, and value for money. UNITAID is also engaging other organizations to coordinate efforts to improve HIV diagnostic markets.

1. UNITAID’s Market Approach inHIV Diagnostics Brenda Waning International AIDS Society 18 July, 2011 Rome

3. Description of UNITAID’s market approach to improve public health

6. UNITAID Goal UNITAID aims to promote “healthy”, dynamic market conditions whereby manufacturers have incentives to invest and innovate, while at the same time supply quality public health products at sustainable, affordable prices and in acceptable formulations that enable the maximum number of people to access them.

8. Market creator: providing incentives for manufacturers to produce otherwise unattractive products with low demand that yield little profit but substantial public health benefit to those in need; and

10. UNITAID Market impact framework UNITAID Intervention example: 2nd line ARV market Partners: Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), WHO Prequalification Programme for Medicines

12. map the landscape (disease, technology, market) for diagnostics across the 3 diseases

13. update every 6 months

14. internal value - inform priorities, decision making

15. external value: public good to other organizations

16. Call for letters of intent (and then proposals) for projects to increase access to diagnostics in the 3 disease areas

17. expected launch: last week of July 2011

20. Market impact

21. Public health impact

22. Innovation

23. Value for money

24. Provide all inputs (landscapes, prioritization analyses) to UNITAID technical & decision-making bodies

25. Continue dialogue with other organizations